Art on the Edge

Class 3 walked up to Longstone Edge this week to have a look at our local area. While we were up there we sat, in the beautiful surrounding painting water colours of the scenery. The class were accompanied by Ms Tilson who offered her expert advice to the children.

We also wrote some Tanka poems about being on the Edge.A Tanka poem is a Japanese poem that follows the rule of 5,7,5,7,7.

Just something for you to think about. English can be really weird..... But it can be understood through tough and thorough, thought.

Awesome Egyptians

This half term our focus is on the Egyptians, we will be looking at ancient myths, hieroglyphics and making canopic jars! As a class we are really excited to get into the topics!​

The whole class for Egyptian Day

Mummification of Fruit

During Egyptian day we had a go at mummifying some fruit. We had to scoop out the inside, just like the Egyptians did to people. Then we filled the "body" with all spice, to make it smell nice, baking soda and salt. We then wrapped them in bandages and left the in a sarcophagus (the classroom cupboard) to become fully fledged mummies!

We are hieroglyphics! We had a go at being hieroglyphics on the playground, we drew around ourselves and the coloured them in!

We have been writing in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Can you write a word on your own too?

Dance Dance!

Class 3 went to dance festival in Sheffield. We showed 6 other schools a dance we put together from our wild Weather topic, based on the book called the Flood. We also had an opportunity to do some cheer leading including some "flying stunts".

World Book Day fun! - Can you guess who we all are?

Hieroglyphics - writing our names

More Science - Gases

Now we have looked at solids and liquids, it was now the turn of gas. We were investigating different things about gas, we wanted to know if gas weighed anything and if gas takes up space. The class tried to squeeze a bottle with a lid on, and found we couldn't do it, because the gas inside the bottle couldn't escape. We also squeezed a sponge under water and observed what happened. Finally we wanted to know of gas weighed anything, so we weighed an empty balloon and one that had been blown up and recorded our findings. We saw that gas did fill every space, and that gas did weigh something! See if you can spot the evidence in the photographs to back up our findings.

Solids and Liquids - what are they?

In science we looked at the properties of both solids and liquids. We wanted to see what properties made objects either solids or liquids.

We investigated various objects. The two we found the hardest to define were the feather and sand! But we eventually recognised that they were both solids!

The National Space Centre - Not the International Space Station!

As a key stage we visited the National Space Centre in Leicester, where we continued our learning all about space looking at all the interactive exhibits, from what it's like to be an astronaut, our solar system and what else might be in our galaxy. Every had a brilliant day, there will be some photographs to follow...

Welcome Back to the Spring term!

From Monday the 23rd we will be welcoming Mr Butler to Class 3. He will be with the class for 8 week as he completes his final teaching placement of his degree!

KS2 are greatly looking forward to their upcoming visit to the National Space Museum, as we look to further our knowledge of our topic of Space.

OH NO a flood is coming! How would you feel? What would you grab?

"Lets go fly a kite" The class 3 version

Marvelous Magnetic Mazes

Creating our RE art work

We were thinking about fairness and equality, and how we would like to make the world a fairer place, the children created a piece of art work to express their ideas from the week.

The final products!

I hope you all had great summer and ready raring to learn!

Our topic this half term is Riotous Royals, we will be looking at various monarchs that have ruled over the UK since 1066.

We are really looking forward to our trip to Buxton Opera House to watch the Horrible Histories Barmy Britain show, on Tuesday.

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As a class we really enjoyed our time at Buxton Opera House, we learnt about British History from Boudica all the way to Queen Victoria, stopping off with Henry VIII, The Black Death, Dick Turpin and Burke and Hare!

EnglishIn English we have been looking at adjectives to describe life in Tudor Britain and writing some senses poems all about the sights, smells, sounds, feelings and tastes of the time!

MathsWe have been looking at place value subtractions using our mate Freddie Frog who jumps along a number lines finding "friendly 10's and 100's"